Why The Shortage Of UI Engineers Is Going To Get Worse

Re:Why The Shortage Of UI Engineers Is Going To Get Worse by dinkumthinkum on Thursday October 21, 2010 @08:16PM (#1818040)

What hand-wavy nonsense. Yeah, programmers are just commodity and we will just offshore everything. This guy just states this flippantly without even acknowledging the several problems associated with that in Yet Another Case Of UX Worship. The idea that you don't need "backend guys" because you are just going to make "AJAX Calls" makes this guy just look silly.

I mean, yeah, Google wasted money on all those engineers. Why did they build on that infrastructure? All they needed was a few AJAX calls, duh! Finally, Google figured it out and through away all that massive indexing set of algorithms so they could just make AJAX calls.

I don't see what this guy's fascination is with AJAX and "making calls from Javascript" or how this means we don't need programmers anymore. Apparently, we can just appeal to some vague "throw it in the cloud and it will scale" mentality.

What makes it worse for me is that apparently this Usability guru was involved in this website:

http://www.pickanexcuse.com/

Really ... a usability guru?

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Re:Why The Shortage Of UI Engineers Is Going To Get Worse by warnickr on Thursday October 21, 2010 @10:51PM (#1818388)

I agree. Usability is important, and people who are good at it are valuable, but to turn that into "all this backend stuff is going to be outsourced" is ridiculous. Generally, building a great app requires highly-skilled people working in all areas of the application.

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